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... hear you speak ! You put ideas into my poor head , and my poor head lets them out , and then you put them in again . What noble perseverance ! If I live a while longer I do really think you will make a clever man of me . Let me put the ...
... hear you speak ! You put ideas into my poor head , and my poor head lets them out , and then you put them in again . What noble perseverance ! If I live a while longer I do really think you will make a clever man of me . Let me put the ...
Page 144
... hear everything that I could tell her about my aunt became all but insatiable . Minna's interest in the subject was , in quite another way , as vivid as her mother's . My aunt's house was the place to which cruel Mr. Keller had banished ...
... hear everything that I could tell her about my aunt became all but insatiable . Minna's interest in the subject was , in quite another way , as vivid as her mother's . My aunt's house was the place to which cruel Mr. Keller had banished ...
Page 148
... hear it . " When you kindly helped Minna to get that letter yesterday , ' she went on , ' you were the innocent means of inflicting a disappointment on me - one disappoint- ment more , after others that had gone before it . I came here ...
... hear it . " When you kindly helped Minna to get that letter yesterday , ' she went on , ' you were the innocent means of inflicting a disappointment on me - one disappoint- ment more , after others that had gone before it . I came here ...
Page 149
... hear . If I had only myself to think of , I should not feel the anxieties that now trouble me . I could take a housekeeper's place to - morrow . Yes ! I was brought up among surroundings of luxury and refinement ; I descended in rank ...
... hear . If I had only myself to think of , I should not feel the anxieties that now trouble me . I could take a housekeeper's place to - morrow . Yes ! I was brought up among surroundings of luxury and refinement ; I descended in rank ...
Page 153
... hear- ing ? how am I to approach him ? I under- stand that you are not in a position to help me . But you have done wonders for me nevertheless , and God bless you for it ! ' She lifted my hand to her lips . I fore- JEZEBEL'S DAUGHTER .
... hear- ing ? how am I to approach him ? I under- stand that you are not in a position to help me . But you have done wonders for me nevertheless , and God bless you for it ! ' She lifted my hand to her lips . I fore- JEZEBEL'S DAUGHTER .
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